Family: Mysmenidae Petrunkevitch, 1928 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0079] Back
Gen.
Mysmena Simon, 1894 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00802 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Theridiidae to the Symphytognathidae by Forster, 1959: 270 and to the Mysmenidae by Forster & Platnick, 1977: 2; not a senior synonym of Microdipoena Banks, 1895 (Saaristo, 1978: 125); considered a senior synonym of Calodipoena Gertsch & Davis, 1936: 8 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00790] (type C. incredula Gertsch & Davis, 1936) (removed from the synonymy of Mysmena Simon, 1894 by Brignoli, 1980j: 729, contra Levi, 1956a: 3, but see also Wunderlich, 2004h: 1073), of Itapua Baert, 1984a: 604 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00796] (type I. tembei Baert, 1984), of Calomyspoena Baert & Maelfait, 1983: 104 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00791] (type C. santacruzi Baert & Maelfait, 1983), of Tamasesia Marples, 1955a: 476 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00808] (type T. rotunda Marples, 1955) (transferred from the Tamasesiidae to the Theridiidae and synonymized with Mysmena Simon, 1894 by Levi, 1956a: 3; removed from synonymy and transferred to the Mysmenidae by Brignoli, 1980j: 730), and of Kekenboschiella Baert, 1982: 303 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00797] (type K. marijkeae Baert, 1982; several undescribed females from New Guinea are illustrated by Baert, 1984b) by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 784, 785; considered a senior synonym of Mysmenella Brignoli, 1980 by Wunderlich, 2004h: 1073, Mysmenella was removed from this synonymy and considered a junior synonym of Microdipoena Banks, 1895 by Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015: 783.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2023-07-14
2023-07-14
Described in
Simon, 1894a: 558 (type Theridion leucoplagiatum Simon, 1880; gender feminine)
Simon, 1894a: 558 (type Theridion leucoplagiatum Simon, 1880; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts | Status |
51 | accepted |
Reference
Edit historySimon, E. (1894a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 489-760. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
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2015-07-08 | Genus synonymy | Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 | Kekenboschiella synonymized with Mysmena |
2015-07-08 | Genus synonymy | Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 | Tamasesia synonymized with Mysmena |
2015-07-08 | Genus synonymy | Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 | Calomyspoena synonymized with Mysmena |
2015-07-08 | Genus synonymy | Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 | Itapua synonymized with Mysmena |
2015-07-08 | Genus synonymy | Lopardo & Hormiga, 2015 | Calodipoena synonymized with Mysmena |